priority
Meaning of priority
- the fact or condition of being regarded or treated as more important than others.
the safety of the country takes priority over any other matter
late Middle English (denoting precedence in time or rank): from Old French priorite, from medieval Latin prioritas, from Latin prior ‘former’ (see prior1).
Information about priority
- It is a name.
- The plural form of priority is: priorities.
- Languages in which priority is used:
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Hyphenation of priority
pri-or-ity
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- priority is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
priority synonyms
Meaning precedence:
Meaning antecedence:
antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedence, precedency
Meaning favour shown to one person or thing over another or others:
Meaning the state or condition of being greater in number or amount:
Meaning the fact of being pre-eminent or most important:
Meaning allowance or adjustment made in order to take account of special circumstances or compensate for a distorting factor:
Meaning a body's relative mass or the quantity of matter contained by it, giving rise to a downward force; the heaviness of a person or thing:
Translation of priority
- French: priorité
- Spanish: prioridad, precedencia
- German: Priorität
- Italian: precedenza
- Portuguese: precedência
Words that rhyme with priority
Charity, Colinearity, Hyposmolarity, Sharity, Solidarity, acicularity, amarity, angularity, annularity, apolarity, avascularity, avuncularity, barbarity, binocularity, bipolarity, capillarity, carity, cellularity, charity, circularity, clarity, cocircularity, colinearity, collinearity, columnarity, complementarity, complimentarity, consimilarity, consularity, contraregularity, coplanarity, corpuscularity, curvilinearity, dextrocularity, discharity, disciplinarity, disparity, dissimilarity, doctrinarity, electrocapillarity, elementarity, equiangularity, exemplarity, familarity, familiarity, fissiparity, gemmiparity, germiparity, globularity, granularity